This of course begs a question: did qemu also have a non-static pcre
requirement at the time? But it seems not:
[adamw@xps13k qemu (f36 %)]$ git show 0835325:qemu.spec | grep pcre
BuildRequires: glibc-static pcre-static glib2-static zlib-static
so, I'm not sure why Daniel concluded this needs a BuildRequires on
pcre-static, but the obvious thing to do would be to ask him, I guess.
I think it could have been a missing requires of glib2-static, because glib does use PCRE and therefore has it in the linker flags for a static build. I will check next time I am at a computer.
Paolo